Posts Tagged ‘weight loss’

This month I want to talk about the latest buzz word in longevity, weight loss and possible brain health…yes you guessed it, FASTING. In my keen 20’s when living in Japan I experimented with fasting, managing 24 hour fasts every so often and one time, at a yoga dojo just below Mt. Fuji, managed a…

Nutritionism Do you care more about the virtue of what you eat than the pleasure you receive from eating it?… Does your diet socially isolate you? With these two questions you may be able to start to diagnose a new eating disorder according to former sufferer Dr. Steve Bratman…Orthorexia nervosa . If your answers to…

Last month, we started our Feast or Famine season looking at how we eat and move and how this is starting to make so many of us sick and die before our time. This is a great paradox, for it is only recently that most people in the developed world have had enough to eat,…

It often happens that after the feasting of Christmas comes the fasting of January. This is no bad thing if it is done naturally and as part of the rhythms of life. In traditional cultures, this was ordained by the landmarks laid down by tradition through the year. In many Catholic countries of Europe, for…

With a New Year and decade many of us come over all resolute and with a firmness of mind or purpose make a decision to do something different this year than last. After the feasting of Christmas we set out, in the cold light of the New Year, to steer our life on a new…